Google Gemini has everything it needs to be a strong contender for the best AI chatbot. While I’ve already discussed the differences between Gemini and ChatGPT in detail, I thought it would be worth testing out the free version of Gemini and the paid version, Gemini Advanced. Is it worth paying $20 a month for Google’s “best AI?” Here’s what I found out.

One of the first things I did with Gemini was test out its coding capabilities. Now, I’m no expert in coding. However, I’ve found that using tools like Gemini and ChatGPT can be helpful for learning a little bit about coding and creating some code to play around with. And since I’ve always seen so much about programmers using these AI chatbots to speed up their productivity, I thought I’d give it a shot.

The prompt I created was simple. I asked both Gemini and Gemini advanced to “help me create the code for a text editor that can only hide the last four lines of text,” essentially a small focus-writer app. Here’s how it responded:

As you can see, it started to break down how I would create the code for this using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS Styling. It explained all the time why it was creating this code and even provided an easy way to copy it.